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metr® 2, Microlepidoptera 24) to his list in a supplementary note. Hor® 
Soc. Ent. Ross, v. pp. 3-5. 
Strom has commenced (Natiuh. Tidsskr. 3rd ser. vol. iv.) a synopsis of the 
Danish Lepidoptera. The first portion (/. c. pp. 109-140) contains the 
Rhopalocera and the Sesiid®, Sphingid®; and Zyg®nid® j a second part 
{1. c. pp. 381-414) the Bombycina. The Ileterocera are divided by Striim 
into the three groups Closterocera (Bum.), Nematocera (Duni.), and Micro- 
lepidoptera ^ — the first group containing the 3 fiiinilies above-mentioned, and 
the second the remainder of the larger Lepidoptera. 
• Maubissen has published (Tijdschr. v. Entom. 2*“® ser. i. pp. 169-188) a 
list of the species of Macrolepidoptera found in the Duchy of Limbourg, with 
notes on comparative rarity, mode and time of occurrence, &c. The list in- 
cludes 442 species. 
J. Pfutzner has published a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the neigh- 
bourhood of Berlin to the end of the Geometrid®. Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1867, 
pp. 195-208. 
Mann has published a list of the species of Lepidoptera collected by him 
in South Tyrol from May to July 1867 (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvii. 
pp. 829-841), followed by descriptions of a few new species (1. c. pp. 841-844). 
E. Buchanan White publishes a list of Lepidoptera collected by him in 
Switzerland and Italy in 1866. Ent. M. Mag. iv. pp. 57-60. 
G. Allard has published (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s6v. vii. pp. 311-322) a 
list of Lepidoptera collected by him in Algeria, with notes on the localities 
in which they occur and on the habits of some of the species, and descriptions 
of several new species. 
P. Mabille publishes a series of notes upon the Lepidoptera of Corsica 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. vi. pp. 545-564, & vii. pp. 635-638). In his first 
notice he gives an account of an ascent of the Monte Botondo (/. c. pp. 547- 
651), with notes on the Lepidoptera observed, and a list of Lepidoptera observed 
in the beginning of August 1866 in the neighbourhood of Corto (/. c, pp. 651- 
556), followed by remarks on the known species and descriptions of some now 
species. Ilis second notice contains additional notes on the Lepidoptera of 
Monte Botondo (/. a. p. 636), on those of Monte Bonoso (/. c. pp. 637-639), on 
the species collected at Bastia and elsewhere on the coasts (/. c. pp. 639- 
642), and a monographic revision of the Eupithecice of Corsica (/. c. pp. 642- 
658). Many remarks on the synonymy and food-plants of the species are 
scattered through the various articles j and the more important of these will 
be noticed hereafter. 
Hinterwaldner lias publislicd (Zeitsclir. des Ferdinand. 3‘® 
Folge, xiii. pp. 211-254) a list of tlie Macrolepidoptera of tlie 
Tyrol, in wliicli the geographical distribution of the species, 
especially with regard to the altitude at which they occur, and 
their comparative rarity in the different regions are indicated by 
means of letters and numbers. In the introductory remarks 
(pp. 211-222) the author discusses the physical characteristics of 
the country and their influence upon the diffusion of Lepido- 
ptera, and notices several points of general interest to the ento- 
mologist. The total number of species recorded is 904, or, in- 
cluding 13 doubtful species, 917; of these, 63 occur exclusively 
